Q. Are there not some of them now in London?
A. I do not know.
Q. Were you not dismissed your ship as first mate for mutiny, while on the Coast of Africa?
A. No: I did not mutiny.
Q. Were you not charged with having mutinied, and tried before six Captains?
A. The charge against me was, giving the lie to the Captain.
(Here Mr. Sylvester read the charges against him wherein he was stated to be a pernicious, dangerous, and troublesome fellow, and accordingly was turned away from the Ship: but there was no specific offence mentioned.)
On his re-examination by Mr. Solicitor General, he said that he had mentioned the Murder of the slave to several persons, before he came to give evidence of the firing upon the town of Calabar: and to a Gentleman at Bristol, after Kimber had been brought up to town. He did not know where the rest of the Crew had been.
Captain Kimber he said was one of those who formed the Court, that tried him on the Coast of Africa; and that he afterwards took him into his ship and treated him in a friendly manner.